1 Corinthians 15:32 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³² If I fought with wild animals at Ephesus with a merely human perspective, what would I have gained by it? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³² If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² What do I gain if, merely from the human point of view, I fought with [wild] beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised [at all], let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will be dead. [Isa. 22:13.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³² If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

Common English Bible

³² From a human point of view, what good does it do me if I fought wild animals in Ephesus? If the dead aren’t raised, “let’s eat and drink because tomorrow we’ll die”.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² If, according to man, I fought with the beasts at Ephesus, how would that benefit me, if the dead do not rise again? "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³² If (according to man) I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall die.

1 Corinthians 15:32 Cross References

Job 35:3

If you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

Psalm 73:13

All in vain I have kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink and find enjoyment in their toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,

Isaiah 22:13

but instead there was joy and festivity, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Isaiah 56:12

“Come,” they say, “let us get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow will be like today, great beyond measure.”

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’

Luke 9:25

For what does it profit them if they gain the whole world but lose or forfeit themselves?

Acts 18:19

When they reached Ephesus, he left them there, but first he himself went into the synagogue and had a discussion with the Jews.

Acts 18:21

but on taking leave of them he said, “I will return to you, if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

Acts 19:1

While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul passed through the interior regions and came to Ephesus, where he found some disciples.

Romans 3:5

But if our injustice serves to confirm the justice of God, what should we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)

Romans 6:19

I am speaking in human terms because of your limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, leading to even more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.

1 Corinthians 16:8

But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,

Galatians 3:15

Brothers and sisters, I give an example from daily life: once a person’s will has been ratified, no one adds to it or annuls it.

2 Peter 2:12

These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and as those creatures are destroyed, they also will be destroyed,

Jude 1:10

But these people slander whatever they do not understand, and they are destroyed by those things that, like irrational animals, they know by instinct.